Philosophy Purity Test
Check all boxes for which your answer is "yes".
Then click the left button to be evaluated by online ethicists.
Have you ever
had lunch with a philosophy faculty member?
had lunch with a philosophy faculty member past 1 PM?
had a lunch with a philosophy faculty member that led to heated debate?
debated a stranger?
engaged in debate with 2 or more people in the same day?
at the same time?
read
On Human Bondage
?
highlighted the good parts?
scribbled notes in the margin?
used ideas from the book in class?
read up on Objectivism just for the steamy parts?
engaged in a 2 person prisoner's dilemma game?
engaged in a multi-person prisoner's dilemma game?
betrayed your partner in a prisoner's dilemma game?
attended a guest lecture?
attended 2 or more guest lectures in a 24 hour period?
attended guest lectures on a regular basis (at least once a month)?
given in to skepticism?
begged for Moore?
espoused fallibilism?
mastered the Sheffer stroke?
been guilty of vagueness?
pondered the problem of evil?
read ancient philosophy in a non-Platonic manner?
pulled an all-nighter on a term paper?
finished more than 1 term paper in a night, with none of your professors aware of it?
finished more than 1 term paper in a night, with 1 or more professors aware of it?
been under the influence of a Cartesian demon?
used dirty words like "m*st*c," "b*h*v**rist," or (gasp) "d**list"?
participated in a Hobbesian state of nature?
submitted your authority to the will of a sovereign?
used the Dominance Principle?
had it backfire (as in a commons game)?
experienced qualia?
faked qualia?
exposed a fallacy?
examined your hard data?
been weak-willed?
been (sorry, Steffen) self-deceived?
read the final chapter of Benardete's
Metaphysics
?
Used it?
And one last question: have you, anywhere on this test, asserted anything that is false on the correspondence theory of truth?
Now comes the moment of truth!